Blizzards frontman turned mental health campaigner Niall Breslin has shared details surrounding his new album ‘The Place That Has Never Been Wounded’ (Out On October 24th via INNI). The album which features 14 instrumental piano compositions including the introspective lead single ‘The Credence Frequency’ will be followed by a 9-date tour of Ireland.
Speaking of the single which is accompanied by a live performance video recorded in Iceland, Niall says: “‘The Credence Frequency’ is about tuning back into the primal transmission between body and mind, the signal that the chaos of modern culture drowns out. Endless metrics, curated feeds, the circus of self-optimisation, spiritual bypassing, individualism… it all distorts the frequency until you mistake the noise for your own voice.”
Bressie describes The Place That Has Never Been Wounded as being part musical breakthrough, part philosophical treatise, and part autobiography. “There’s an awful lot about my life that I can’t really express,” he explains. “Things that I find really difficult to understand, or to put into words. And those are the things I put into music.”
The Place That Has Never Been Wounded was recorded at Camden Recording Studios in Dublin over five days with the help of producer Eliot James (Bloc Party, Two Door Cinema Club) with each song double-tracked on a Steinway grand piano and a felted upright piano to give the tracks a sound that’s both intimate and rich.
“I’ve learned in my own life that you can’t avoid the things that make you uncomfortable,” says Breslin. “This record is meant to help people sit with that — the good, the bad, and the ugly of life. A soundtrack that lets you sit with it all.”
The album will be twinned by a book of the same name due in January 2026. Each track is named after one chapter, and each of the four acts — The Polaris Principles, Duchas, Metta, and The Place That Has Never Been Wounded — is titled after one of its core concepts inspired by the work of Meister Eckhart. An extended version of the album is planned, to include spoken word reflections intended for use in guided meditation.
“A line I use in the spoken word is we’ve become so busy chasing a life that we’ve ultimately missed living it,” Breslin says. “And that’s what this album’s about — living what’s in front of you. Even if what’s in front of you isn’t particularly nice — live it. That’s the goal of this record, really.”